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JOURNAL OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 411-418Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2010.08.009
Keywords
Splicing; CFTR; mRNA; Cystic fibrosis; Pseudo exon
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- Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) [2005068307]
- Regione Lombardia, DG Sanaa [12298, 19081]
- Eurogentest-Network of Excellence [FP6-512148-2004]
- Italian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation
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Background The CFTR gene is tightly regulated and differentially expressed in many mucosal epithelial cell types There is evidence of an increasing number of genomic variations in the intronic regions influencing mRNA splicing, and also the level of normal CFTR transcript Methods In the present study, we investigate the molecular defect by RT-PCR analyzing the mRNA of 25 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in whom only one or no CF allele had been identified after DNA analysis (of all the exons of the CFTR gene) Results mRNA analysis led to the detection of a cryptic exon in two patients the new exon is a 104 bp insertion between exons 10 and 11 and is caused by a new point mutation c 1584+18672 bp A>G (http//wwwhgvsorg/mutnomen/) discovered in intron 10 moreover, they showed the absence of exon 9 skipping Conclusions Our results confirm the utility of RNA analysis in discovering new mutations and in investigating their effect on normal splicing processes (C) 2010 European Cystic Fibrosis Society Published by Elsevier B V All rights reserved
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